I like my pockets pretty much unencumbered. Sorry, but guys with shit bulging out all their pockets look like a doofus.
But, I always carry a small (3" closed and 5" open), thin, all steel spring-assisted pocket knife. I use it several times a day and essentially am never without a knife on me. No REAL man is. A guitar pick. Both always in my right front pocket.
Always have a small tube of lip balm in my left pocket.
Usually a small handkerchief in my back right pocket.
That's it.
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Resolving the problems of the Genesis account.
by Mr. Majestic ini am not trying to prove anything from what i am about to say.
for me there is nothing that is provable at the moment.
i dont do belief.
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No offense meant, but it sounds like you're trying to make sense of how Santa Claus makes it down all those chimneys all over the world on Christmas Eve with gifts for everyone in his sleigh.
There's also no way to make sense of Genesis.
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Does anyone Jog?
by Hope4Others insprings about here and i've seen a few out already, some say it is quite a rush and once you start you.
can't quit.
i've been thinking of starting this year and wonder if there are any pointers i should know since it will be much.
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My girlfriend Lori and I are runners. I find running on hard surfaces not great for my left knee, so we're waiting for the trails in the forests around our house to get cleared of snow and the mud to dry up some. Been a looong winter up here!
We run trails for as much of the year as it's possible, and we have an excellent treadmill for training in winter. Lori has been a long distance runner for decades, and I've run off and on for 30 years or more. We like to get out and do an hour or hour and a half together in the woods, though a 45 minute run is fine with me. Right now we're training to run some 5K races this year.
You asked: "Are there better runners than others for this?" Here in the States runners are the people, but are you referring to the running shoe? If so, there are tons of great shoes out there, and you might want to get your running style and foot configuration checked at a good running store where people know what they're doing. Then you can get a shoe specifically designed for you that will help prevent injury. Considering that shoes are about the only real expense in running, it's worth it to get a good pair.
In running and other sports right now, they are discovering that what is referred to as High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) provides the most bang for the buck. HIIT can be researched online, but in a nutshell it's running where you increase intensity over a few minutes, drop back down to about 60% effort, then repeat the cycle several times.
You get a hell of a workout in a half hour or so, and it is by far the fastest way to increase your level of fitness.
I had to laugh at the comment about running a couple of miles a few times a week to burn off the beers! Running burns about 100 calories a mile. So you'd have to run over a mile for every beer you drank! Eating a chocolate chip cookie probably adds more calories than running a mile burns!
If you want to lose weight, diet and exercise are an unbeatable combination, especially if you add HIIT running, which is also known as Extreme Interval Fat Burning (EIFB), which you can also look up. If you want to get really fit AND have a hell of a lot of fun doing it, HIIT or EIFB is the way to go!
PM me if you want some more info, and happy running! I'm dying to get out on the trails to see how a winter of EIFB on the treadmill translates to being on the trails in the woods, which is just the greatest place to run!
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Be Fair = Witnesses are NOT a cult!! What about Christians or democracy?
by Witness 007 inpeople like to throw around the cult word when describing the watchtower society.
but look at the definition of "cult" and you will see it applies to any system of thought concieved by an individual or group to control others.
are christians a jesus cult...yes.
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I have to take exception to "democracy a Bush cult."
Come on!! Bush might be part of an anti-democracy cult....
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What Was The Silliest "Offense" That You Were Counseled For?
by minimus inwhen i was a teenager, i was told by an elder that because i smiled a lot and was known for my good sense of humor, that i should come across as "more serious".
so before i was appointed a ms, while in my late teens, i transformed myself into a much more "serious" brother.. were you ever told that you needed to work on something that you knew was stoopid?.
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Oh, these comments bring back some memories! I can absolutely picture my former brother in law elder going to that store to counsel the couple about having too much red in the window.
When I was a young MS, the elders counseled me that, if I was going to be an elder, my conversation with the friends had to be more "spiritual." I have a lot of interests and loved good conversation about things - and that was considered "bad." I was supposed to start talking more about what was in the WT, etc.
I was also counseled when I was a teenager by a CO that I "sure knew a lot about worldly things."
Being too smart or thinking too much is always grounds for being counseled in the WTS.
All these comments reminded me of how the elders felt free to counsel you on anything. There were no boundaries, and if you told them to mind their own business, it was considered a bad attitude on YOUR part! What a bunch of arses.
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How many attorneys are on JW staff only?
by Gayle inhow many attorneys work at bethel or elsewhere but exclusive for jws?
i hear of shane brady in canada, but what other names are there?
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Judah Ben Schroeder is not a Bethelite. He is attending law school and is not yet a lawyer.
It is also unclear as to whether or not he is attending law school in order to use his degree for the WTS. His father-in-law is paying for his education, not the WTS. I would not be surprised to find that Judah Ben moves on once he has his degree.
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How did you find this site?
by truthseeker init seems as though an age has passed from discovering this site seven years ago to where i am now.
just before we started studying the daniel's prophecy book, i went online to see if anyone had made a study bookmark with the dates and paragraphs on.
i "stumbled" across this site, way back in 2000. of course, like a good christian i pretty much determined that this site had gone apostate from the other jw sites, such.
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I found freeminds years ago when I first started going online to learn about the JWs. Freeminds and Docbob's site were a big help, and I was soon an active poster on the old H2O site where I worked out a number of issues. Robert7's comment was similar to my experience. How does one go from being a gungho JW elder to an atheist? The trip is much easier than one might expect, as many on this board well know.
H2O had some problems and Bill Bowen, in a telephone conversation I think, told me that JWD was the place to be. Came here seven years ago and have been a happy member ever since.
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How many exjw's do you think there are out there now?
by Velvetann ini am not sure if anyone has asked this before but i am curious.
does anyone know approximately how many of us have left the watchtower society in the past 20 years.
it seems to me that it is compounding monthly lately.
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There was the recent Pew Poll on religion that was discussed extensively on here, and it said that 75% of those in the US raised as JWs have left the Witnesses.
Now, not all are raised JW, and there are no definite figures on this, but I would guess that with 6 to 7 million active JWs right now, there are likely several million ex-JWs. The WTS's own figures indicate that tens of thousands if not 100,000 or more simply drift away from the org each year. The vast majority do not belong to boards like this.
I get together with a bunch of ex-JWs a few times a year, and I'm the only one active like this. I would say perhaps 5% or fewer get online like we do.
When I was a JW, there were on average 40,000 disfellowshipped every year. I would doubt that the number has gone to 100,000, oompa, but perhaps.
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Apostate funeral
by Samuel Thorsen inhave you ever been to an apostate funeral?
was it in the spirit of the dead person or did the did the dub-family and congo "steal it" with their usual promotion talk and kingdom melodies?.
how would you like your own or your apostate family members funeral to be?
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I like Msjones' ideas. I plan on being cremated and having friends come and have their say and sing a few songs. Funeral home or a hall somewhere. Being an atheist, there won't be much of a religious element!
It'll have to be my younger friends who attend, as I'm going to live to be a really, really old shit and my contemporaries will all be long gone!
When people ask me if I'm going to go to so-and-so's funeral, I always give them the same reply: "Of course! If you don't attend your friend's funerals, none of them will come to yours!"
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The end of the end- your thoughts?
by JimmyPage inso what does everyone think of the wt info from the past year comparing the time of the end to israel's escape from egypt?
it said (paraphrasing):"the wt may even give specific instructions that seem to lead us into the face of danger just as the israelites were led to the red sea with their enemies pursuing them from the other side.
" also what do you think of the past two year texts- "obey god as ruler rather than men" and "stand firm and see the salvation of jehovah"?
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It's the same old stuff I heard 45 years ago!
Nothing new here - just even less urgency among the frank and file. NO ONE is putting any real stock in this that anything new is happening. My ex-wife is still an active JW, and there is no sense of urgency going on at all.
Same old shit, for sure.
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